Mattermark Daily – Wednesday, October 28th, 2015

From the Investors

Michael Moe, Deborah Quazzo, and Nick Franco of GSV offer an aspirational vision for how to address society’s greatest challenge in a comprehensive white paper exploring the state of human capital and education innovation in “2020 Vision: A History of the Future”

Yenyun Fu of London Bridge Ventures and Harry Stebbings of Angel Insights discuss how she got started as an investor, the KPIs she uses to measure startup valuations, and more in “Are Down Rounds Always As Bad As They Seem?” (podcast)

Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital expands on a few common mistakes he’s noticed when founders present LTV metrics in “Your LTV Math is Wrong”

This is a guest post by Steven Carpenter, an Executive-in-Residence at Accel, and former Global Sales & Operations at Dropbox.

Ready or not, you’ll be forced to figure out how to scale your company as you gain momentum. But, don’t start worrying about scale too soon…though don’t wait too long either! If you are scaling quickly, you better scale intelligently. If you’re not smart about your plans, you’ll burn through capital, squander your opportunity and destroy your team. (read the rest)

How Mattermark uses Mesos and Marathon to make the most of AWS

Samiur Rahman, Machine Learning Engineer at Mattermark reveals how Mattermark uses Mesos and other technologies to handle the millions of data points that Mattermark provides to its customers.